The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a pilot intervention designed to improve physical activity, healthy eating and psychological well-being in a group of third level students in a rural college setting. The ...

Breast cancer is the most common form of invasive cancer diagnosed in women in Ireland. It can cause distress in healthy women considering their risk of developing the disease, as well as in women who have been diagnosed ...

Under the EUROPEAN initative of the European Social Fund, the Irish Productivity Centre (IPC) identified a need for Environmental Business Management (E.B.M.) education and training for S.M.E.s. The relevance of E.B.M. to ...

This report describes the evaluation of the MindOut programme that was implemented in
Youthreach Centres in the HSE West (Galway, Mayo and Roscommon). The MindOut
programme was originally developed as a resource to promote ...

Forkan, Cormac(Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway, 2008-08)

Foreword
Springboard Evaluation Report
This evaluation of the Springboard Resource House Project in Sligo, undertaken by
the Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway, is both timely and welcome. It
will contribute ...

This report presents the main findings on the evaluation of the Zippy's Friends emotional wellbeing programme in Irish primary schools. The Zippy's Friends programme is designed to promote the emotional wellbeing of children ...

In recent years, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has
become a popular tool in building simulation. However, developing reliable CFD
models requires a high level of expertise in fluid dynamics and numerical
techniques. ...

This study reports on the evaluation of Zippy's Friends, an international emotional wellbeing programme for children in primary school. The purpose of this study was to (i) assess the immediate and long term impact of the ...

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for social media event finding in order to support fast access to information that users find relevant. While there are many approaches related to this problem, they mainly focus ...

n this essay I analyse the role of space in key texts belonging to the tradition of phenomenology. Starting from the assumption that phenomenology is uniquely positioned to answer the epistemological challenges posed by ...

Everyday life might be described as a rhythmic flow of routines and practices that frame social life’s multitudinous interactional episodes. Everyday social life is also punctuated by various types of racism that can be ...

This thesis explores the background to the evictions on the Glinsk Creggs estate of Allan and Margaret Pollok in County Galway in the 1850s, and the course of the evictions in the years 1853-1856. It also examines the ...

Four experiments show that presentation of a synchronous premask frame within a 40-Hz, flickering premask matrix primes subsequent detection of a Kanizsa-type square by generation of a 40-Hz prime. Reaction time (RT) priming ...

Using a primed figure-detection task we were able to reveal the existence of two distinct groups of dyslexics. One group is characterized by a significant impairment of visual integration-segmentation processes, resulting ...

HESS J0632+057 is one of only two unidentified very-high-energy gamma-ray sources which appear to be point-like within experimental resolution. It is possibly associated with the massive Be star MWC 148 and has been suggested ...

k-Nearest Neighbours (k-NN) is a well understood and widely-used approach to classification and regression problems. In many cases, such applications of k-NN employ the standard Euclidean distance metric for the determination ...